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HANSARD Water Companies: Executive BonusesI share the hon. Gentleman’s passion for wildlife. We need a diverse countryside of the kind that he describes and I make the case, as he does, for hedgerows, trees and so on.…05 Dec 2023HANSARDEngagementsThat 1.3 million migrants over a period of two years is a catastrophe for Britain is obvious to everyone apart from guilt-ridden bourgeois liberals and greed-driven globalists.…29 Nov 2023HANSARDNuclear Test Veterans: Medical RecordsI entirely endorse that. I described my constituent Douglas Hern as having inspired me. Had that Mirror journalist not cajoled and informed me over such a long period, I do not…28 Nov 2023HANSARD Net Migration FiguresDoes the Minister recognise that many myths about immigration are perpetuated by the unholy alliance of greedy globalist corporate businesses and guilt-ridden bourgeois liberals?…28 Nov 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice BillThe Conservative writer and statesman John Buchan said: “You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a…28 Nov 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice BillYes, but it is a big mistake to assume that the principle aim of criminal justice is to avoid recidivism. That seems to underpin much of what the Government think. It is true that…28 Nov 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice BillDoes the hon. Lady agree that perpetual shoplifters of the kind she describes, who intimidate people and make the lives of shopkeepers and shop assistants a misery, should be…28 Nov 2023HANSARDCriminal Justice BillThe right hon. Lady may recall that when I was a Home Office Minister—we are all sharing our Home Office histories here—we set up the National Cyber Security Centre and the…28 Nov 2023HANSARDNuclear Test Veterans: Medical RecordsI want to start by paying tribute to the hon. Member for Salford and Eccles (Rebecca Long Bailey) for securing this debate. This place is often at its best when we put aside…28 Nov 2023HANSARDNuclear Test Veterans: Medical RecordsOf course, the descendants too, because I hope that the medals can be awarded posthumously to descendants such as those of my constituent Douglas Hern. I will get that medal for…28 Nov 2023HANSARDNuclear Test Veterans: Medical RecordsWe now know that tests were done, presumably because there was a view that there might be an effect of the exposure to radiation, otherwise there would not have been blood and…28 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal Justicerose—15 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeMy right hon. and learned Friend will want to comment, in that context, on persistent offenders, because he will know that there are many offenders who persistently offend and…15 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeWhat a pleasure to follow the thoughtful eloquence of the new hon. Member for Rutherglen and Hamilton West (Michael Shanks). One of his predecessors, Tom Greatrex, shadowed me…15 Nov 2023HANSARDViolence Reduction, Policing and Criminal JusticeI am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend. Those are the arguments that have been used for most of my lifetime: the idea that recidivism is caused not by punishment, or by…15 Nov 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s contribution to this debate, but my experience of these things is quite different from hers. As both Minister with responsibility for energy and…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsAbsolutely. That brings me to—I do not know whether my hon. Friend anticipated this by a kind of telepathy or just through her wisdom—the next point that I intended to make.…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsDenying “our goal”, “our God”—I believe it is the hon. Lady’s God, certainly. She is right that it is important that what we do in respect of energy, which I spend a great deal…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsWhen societies and civilisations lose their sense of the spiritual—their sight of God—the void is filled by causes, which, like the divine, are immense, inspire guilt and are…25 Oct 2023HANSARDRenewable Energy Providers: Planning ConsiderationsSo much for local decision making!25 Oct 2023